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WASHINGTON — The office of an African American employee of the U.S. Department of Education was vandalized earlier this week, and other employees have expressed concern that the attack may have been racially motivated. African art figurines were found beheaded, with their limbs removed, and a school desegregation poster was damaged, according to Education Department employees and a congressional aide.

The incident happened at the department’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the employees and the aide told NBC News. The department said the employee had been out of the office for several days and reported the incident on Tuesday afternoon.

The poster, which was pulled off the wall and damaged, was believed to depict Ruby Bridges, an African American schoolgirl who became an icon of the civil rights movement, sources told NBC News. Some of the employee’s co-workers are now looking for copies of the poster to put up in their own offices to show solidarity, they added.

The office belongs to an African American woman who was recently designated as a “diversity change agent” within the Education Department to provide diversity and inclusion training to department staffers, the sources said. …

Both department employees and the congressional aide said they did not believe that a personal feud or conflict led to the incident, because the staffer whose office was vandalized seemed to have a collegial relationship with her colleagues.

“I could not believe that something like this happened,” a department employee said. “This should be a place that’s safe for all of us.”

Suzy Khimm is a national reporter for NBC News, focused on investigating federal agencies.

Heidi Przybyla is an NBC News correspondent.

Jonathan Allen is a Washington-based national political reporter for NBC News who focuses on the presidency.

Laura Strickler is an investigative producer in the NBC News Investigative Unit based in Washington.

As I’ve often noted in the past, eventually one of these type of incidents is going to prove to be legit. Maybe this will be the one?

Probably not, though. Indeed, this one sounds like a hilariously obvious Hate Hoax.

Of course, there isn’t a whisper of skepticism in the NBC News account.

Did any of the four NBC reporters assigned to this Breaking National News have any Doubts? Do any of them know that Hate Hoaxes have been a Thing for many years now, with a history traceable back to the Tawana Brawley-Al Sharpton whoop-tee-doo of 1987?

In contrast, here’s a local police blotter item from SFGate.com today:

Three members of a family are suspected of tying up and assaulting an African American teen in what police described as a racially motivated attack early Thursday in San Bruno.

Wilfredo Amaya, 46, and Haydee Arguello, 46, both of San Bruno, and Luisandor Suarez, 49, of San Francisco, were taken into custody on suspicion of committing a hate crime, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon and criminal threats, police said Friday.

But the subsequent details suggest this wasn’t what most people think of as a Hate Crime — a random attack on a member of a hated group. Instead, three Latinos were really mad at the black youth for a very personal reason.

The 17-year-old boy told police that he was visiting a girl at the family’s home in San Bruno when members of the girl’s family arrived at about 2:30 a.m.

Three of the family members reportedly became irate and allegedly assaulted the victim, restrained him with rope, held him against his will and threatened to kill him, police said.

The victim told police that the suspects yelled at him using racial slurs, and he believed his race to be a motivating factor for the attack. He is African American and the suspects are Hispanic, according to police.

The suspects eventually released the boy and he was later treated at a hospital and then released, according to police.

A lot of what are counted as Hate Crimes these days are not what people assume Hate Crimes are — violence against random members of a group — but instead are run-of-the-mill personal conflicts in which the aggressor uses a forbidden epithet to express his personal anger.

The national media are talking about this and not about the black ex-Houston cop who killed a family in a no-knock raid on the wrong address.
Someone is prioritizing a poster [insert image of Larry David accidentally damaging a poster, then trying to put it back up, then noting that it is a really really old poster and maybe no one will mind] over multiple human lives.
It wouldn’t let me add this in my OT comment on the disastrous Houston affirmative action hire but the name of the party wrongfully raided was Tuttle.

One of her African-American coworkers saw her name on the door and poor reading skills lead them to believe she was Ruby Ridges the home of an alleged white Supremacist not Ruby Bridges the Diversity Coordinator.

Virtually all modern office buildings have key card access into and most of the time out of the building. This activity is logged by a computer. Since this is a government building hopefully someone will make a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for those key card logs during this time period.

The victim told police that the suspects yelled at him using racial slurs, and he believed his race to be a motivating factor for the attack. He is African American and the suspects are Hispanic, according to police.

Just Hispanic? Not white Hispanic? We need to know how white the suspects are before we can be sure this was a hate crime.

Do they even think this stuff through? The Department of Education isn’t exactly a bastion of white supremacy. I don’t have the exact numbers but we know they employ a ton of affirmative action hires and a ton of cat ladies. There might still be some white men among the oldest employees, but mostly left-leaning. I would be surprised if the employees were even 30% cuckservative-type Republicans. There might be a few covert Jason Richwine type guys in there, but they are just letting the hate facts simmer quietly in their heads during the meetings, not vandalizing things.

The national media are talking about this and not about the black ex-Houston cop who killed a family in a no-knock raid on the wrong address.

Fairly surprising that the cop was charged at all. Especially since they allowed him to retire with full benefits.
Local Houston gadfly/police accountability activists are claiming they have evidence that this raid was a failed hit against one of the cops on the raid. The cops outside the house fired numerous rounds through the walls and I suspect all four wounded officers were hit by friendly fire.

The family of the two victims hired a former NCIS investigator to do a forensics sweep of the house. He supposedly found quite a bit of evidence, including spent rounds and human teeth, left behind by the HPD forensics team.

One neighbor has claimed that a SWAT officer fired two rounds through a back window into Tuttle as he lay moaning for help. Another neighbor has claimed that there were two muffled shots even after that. The activists speculating that these two shots were trying to leave evidence from a “drop gun”.

The cop who has been charged allegedly had undocumented drugs and at least one non official firearm in his car. Was he planning on planting these in the house after the raid?

Both department employees and the congressional aide said they did not believe that a personal feud or conflict led to the incident, because the staffer whose office was vandalized seemed to have a collegial relationship with her colleagues.

With:

The office belongs to an African American woman who was recently designated as a “diversity change agent” within the Education Department to provide diversity and inclusion training to department staffers, the sources said. …

And we accept that it must have been a white male, hey, since nobody is racist or hateful towards the victim, we should hone in on any disagreement with our policies. And since we can’t ID the perp we’re going to have lots and lots of mandatory diversity training!

They have Hispanic names , thus they get the benefit of being considered Hispanics and not “white” Hispanics. If George Zimmerman had a Spanish surname the story would never have been national news. Another reason whites should adopt Spanish surnames.

We feel pressure to display our status in new ways. This is why fashionable clothing always changes. But as trendy clothes and other products become more accessible and affordable, there is increasingly less status attached to luxury goods.

The upper classes have found a clever solution to this problem: luxury beliefs. These are ideas and opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class.

“Kind of confused by the story. If the girl’s 17, and they came home at 2:30 am and are pissed off that her boyfriend’s black, well, would that normally be called a hate crime? Interesting application.

“But what if the girl’s 13 or 14, and they come home and find a 17 year old guy there? Not sure race would be the operative factor in that case.”

Yeah — I’d have to know 2 things before entering this one in the “hate crime” column, or in the “really pissed off, and used an opportunistic hurtful epithet” column:

(1) What, in somewhere between general and specific terms, were the young couple doing when her family came home, and (1a) how close to fully dressed were they?

(2) How much younger than him was she?

There’s a somewhat interactive relationship between factors 1/1a and 2. As anybody with a daughter or kid sister probably knows intuitively.

I guess the three middle-aged Hispanics thought 2:30 in the morning was a little late for their daughter/niece to be visited. She should be in bed already! Wonder what she had to say about her visitor being tied-up. I think there’s more human interest angles to this story than are being reported.

The office of an African American employee of the U.S. Department of Education was vandalized earlier this week, and other employees have expressed concern that the attack may have been racially motivated. African art figurines were found beheaded, with their limbs removed, and a school desegregation poster was damaged, according to Education Department employees and a congressional aide.

Hoax. Guaranteed. Everybody in the building probably (certainly?) has to gain electronic access with scanned ID… PLUS everything has got to be on CCTV. They know EXACTLY who went in and out of that office down to the second.

The 17-year-old boy told police that he was visiting a girl at the family’s home in San Bruno when members of the girl’s family arrived at about 2:30 a.m.

Three of the family members reportedly became irate and allegedly assaulted the victim, restrained him with rope, held him against his will and threatened to kill him, police said.

2:30 a.m., eh??? Haaaa… Caught the black boy banging the daughter, did they??? Didn’t that used to be justifiable homicide in Texas?

Man, this congressional staffer must really be a screw up. You have to be REALLY BAD to have to worry about being fired from the US Government, especially as an AA. Judging by these hate crimes that were perpetrated by “someone”, she was really worried about her job. It’s all good in the hood now, though …

If it is an elementary education office were there just some little kids around who snuck in to the vacant office and trashed it? Why no swastikas etc?

Also remember Columbia Teaching College incident – some nazis got in her office foyer and thoughtfully put framed pictures on the floor before drawing swastikas and what not on the walls. Never heard if any security video of the college campus in NYC

But the really funny thing is how the story has evolved from Jan. 29, the day of the events, and the backstory of the cop charged with murder. Apparently he himself has been shot twice before, once in a road rage incident.

Tell you right now, i’d vote “not guilty”. I don’t want any more Mexicans in my nation, but i applaud these guys standing up for their family and “discouraging” this unwelcome suitor.

I don’t care how many of the Mexicans in California are illegals and therefore (in theory) not eligible for jury duty, there is no way any jury convicts on these facts where the population is 1.6% Black and 29% Mexican. It’s not like the Asians (28.4%) or the whites (apparently there are a few left) want black kids impregnating their daughters in their homes (or anywhere else).

While this sounds like another faddish ay-ee name (insert consonants to taste) you hear in junior highs all across America, it actually has a high-class literary origin, used by Byron and Dumas. It comes from the Greek for “well-behaved”.

It gets used on the continent, and in Latin America, but is little known here. It has never ranked in the top 1,000 names, either with a Y or an I.

Maybe it’s only because I’m in their state but it’s been hard to miss here, ongoing since February (Goines/Bryant dirty cops story). Top of local newscasts as well as Texas-based newspapers’ sites. Not to neglect its additional, highly sensational angle of a long trail of corruption, perhaps a screenplay’s worth; these guys were not young cops. The life of a Houston narcotics officer is apparently full of interest.

It’s not impossible that some other employee got tired of a tedious black woman and did some vandalism. People in offices don’t all get along and sometimes feud.

To me the real issue is:

The office belongs to an African American woman who was recently designated as a “diversity change agent” within the Education Department to provide diversity and inclusion training to department staffers, the sources said. …

Both department employees and the congressional aide said they did not believe that a personal feud or conflict led to the incident, because the staffer whose office was vandalized seemed to have a collegial relationship with her colleagues.

When are we going to get a “conservative” who is actually serious about reigning in this monster. Hire cabinet secretaries with a charter to go through their departments and chop away all the obvious blubber. Then set loose green-eyeshade boys to trim some more.

Half of the left is in some way shape or form an employee of the state, usually parasitically sucking blood from the rest of us. Fire everyone of them whom isn’t doing something the typical taxpayer actually wants done.

The whole Department of Education is a waste of space and money, with cubicles for 4000 employees that use $68 billion per year along with $130 billion in student aid.

I wonder if Republicans could garner political support for proposing the purchase of the whole one trillion dollars in student debt in exchange for getting rid of the principal purveyor of the debt, the DoE.

It would be pay for itself in less than 10 given years, given the annual DoE expenditures. The college attendance would drop to include only those who are actually likely to complete their degree. This would free up spots and the price would come down.

Somebody should have told her to leave a noose. Without a noose it cannot be a genuine racist attack on a black.

Everyone has had more than enough diversity training (especially in government, which I can painfully confirm) – what is needed is more effective hate hoax training, especially since those who are most likely to stage said frauds appear least likely to have the intellectual capacity to execute them convincingly.

Via the agency selector choose ‘Department Of Education’ and look at the overview: approx 40% of employees are black — so if one vandalized a random office at the Dept of Education, the chance of that office belonging to a Black is not insignificant.

Nonetheless please note the likely racial motivation here — but in no way should you notice how dramatically over-represented Blacks are in the federal Dept of Education.

Enlightened by Steve Sailer once again, I ask: Since blacks are the subject, we needn’t be overly rational in covering it – is this how the mainstream media professionals rationalize their laughably unprofessional news-stories? – It might well be one type of the numerous rationalizations going on here.

(From the outside, this looks like big parts of a nations public sphere gone mad (ok neurotic)).

No, it’s when the Sulzberger Birdcage Liner is spin-doctoring. (Papa Zimmerman’s family is midwestern German. He was career Army, retiring in 2008 as an E-9 after 37 years of service; his sons spent the largest share of their youth in Prince William County, Va, where the cheap seats Washington suburbs are located).

They collect some useful statistics (some programs of that sort have been in place since the 1920s). You could transfer those programs to the Labor department and transfer some consumer protection functions to a stand-alone agency and shut the rest of the Department down. It was set up in 1979 to assemble various and sundry federal education programs, which in turn were set up because local officials had different priorities than did liberal politicians, teachers’ college faculty, or the sort of yo-yo active in teachers’ associations. Mainly what it does is provide an excuse for educrats to do what they want to do rather than what parents want them to do, with the excuse that they have to be in compliance with this or that federal policy (or state policy). In higher education, the effect of their efforts is dog-chasing-its-tail subsidy-driven cost escalation and adding a thumb to the scale empowering the worst elements in the faculty and the student affairs apparat contra the more professionally oriented element on the faculty.

Dept of Ed EEDO hire. Middling to poor ratings. All positive comments boilerplate remarks. Not promoted in accordance with her personal schedule because discrimination. I’d like to see her complaints file (plural meant). I’m sure someone from HR must have done this.

This has been the entire history since Nixon at least – during Democrat administration, the Left wing bureaucracy and alphabet soup programs grow rapidly. During Republican administrations they are maintained and grow a little less rapidly. In government budgeting, failure to maintain the current rate of growth of spending is a “cut” and “cuts” are vociferously blocked by Dems. So you have an every growing monster.

I’m pretty sure government programs grew faster under W than Obama, what with the Warren Terror and Medicare Part D. Obamacare hasn’t yet come close to costing what Iraq and Afghanistan did, and that’s not counting human life.

Dismantling the Department required an act of Congress. Only quite briefly (1981 and 1982) was there a majority in Congress in favor of Reagan’s key policy initiatives, and it required a great deal of jawboning to put together a majority even in those circumstances. As for the period running from 1995 to 2006, there was generally a sufficient number of careerists in the Republican caucus to sabotage reform legislation. It didn’t take many, as Republican majorities were slim. Neither Bush had any ambition in the realm of domestic policy. Papa Bush wanted preferential rates on capital gains taxes and…well that was about it. Bush – fils was of the Paul Ryan school: let’s invest all our political capital in tax cuts and private accounts for Social Security. #fredocons

DoE is 40% black but this woman’s job was to promote MORE diversity. DoE won’t REALLY be “diverse” until it is 100% black. Hasn’t anyone figured out that “diverse” doesn’t actually mean “diverse” – it’s just a code word for “black”.

Of course if this is discovered to be a hoax, then it is going to be memory holed in a NY minute. Anyway, the employee meant well – she just wanted to draw attention to the racism that continues to pervade our society, blah, blah, blah. Maybe the white racist KKK members who infest the DoE didn’t actually do this, but we know that they still exist and COULD have done it.

The ratio of government purchases of goods and services had several phases of expansion between 1914 and 1974, then hit a plateau. The Obama crew tried to institute another step-wise increase, but that effort was defeated. The composition of that spending does vary over time, of course. The Nixon and Reagan Administrations did manage to dismantle an agency here or there, e.g the Office of Economic Opportunity. That was a multi-stage process that took about 15 years. It’s amazing the sh!t sandwiches that go on and on. Even gross scandals were insufficient to motivate Congress to dissolve HUD. Economists have for decades been critiquing the practice of subsidizing particular goods and services, but the constituency in Congress for replacing nutrition and housing subsidies with small increments in the level of EITC, Social Security benefits, SSI benefits, and unemployment compensation is just about nil. The Gingrich Congress was all in on ‘block grants to the states’, even though block grants manufacture compliance and oversight costs and distort local preferences; you can help out impecunious parts of the country with general revenue sharing, but the constituency for replacing categorical grants and block grants with a single check from the U.S. Treasury of a value determined by formulae is … just about nil. There’s also an ant heap of agencies and subagencies distributing patronage to a miscellany of Democratic constituencies – to the arts fraternity, to public television, to higher education, to the social work industry. Little or nothing these agencies subsidize require central co-ordination and control. It’s just that when the federal government is passing out the cash (as opposed to the county government), it’s more insulated from complaint.

It’s doubtful that 40% of the people working for the Department of Education are black. You might see those proportions in certain municipal transit services or in certain postal stations, not in a federal cabinet department.

Katina Rae Stapleton, is one of the Department of Ed’s diversity change agents and from what I’ve read she matches the job description. Her personal website features a pic of Obama so she could be the one.

It sounds like the murdered couple died with their boots on, and that the injuries to the attacking policemen was what prompted the investigation. So hopefully some good came of their sacrifice. Too often the cops just murder some white guy and no one cares.

Dang. 38% of their workforce. What’s SMDH about that is that teaching as an occupation isn’t a collecting pool of blacks. About 10-11% of those employed as teachers are black. That’s slightly lower than their share of the workforce. (School administrators are more likely to be black – 14%).

Even if you didn’t have this nutty stuff, central government involvement in providing education should be minimal. You don’t have economies of scale which would ever justify it, nor losses from a deficit of central co-ordination.

The NFL player’s former chef has sued for $38,000, saying, “What person with intelligence could have misplaced a fish head for some mob, horse head?!”

Last week, a man who calls himself “The Sports Chef” sued Brown, alleging that the player refused to pay his $38,521.20 bill, all because of a fish head that he’d left in the freezer. Stefano Tedeschi told ESPN that Brown hired him during last season’s Pro Bowl, and asked him to cook for several days, host a culinary show, and otherwise accommodate almost 50 hungry NFL players.

But before the weekend ended, Brown allegedly kicked Tedeschi out of that rented Miami-area mansion, wouldn’t allow him to take his own food or cooking equipment with him, and a member of Brown’s entourage allegedly told him not to make eye contact with the player as he slunk off the property. “I’ve cooked for countless NFL superstars and celebrities,” he told the network. “Never once have I had one problem [until this]. My food is so good, and my mannerisms in someone’s home is second to none.”

In an interview with TMZ Sports, Tedeschi said that he’s decided that the reason Brown booted him was because of a severed salmon head that he’d saved to use in a soup. According to the chef, he’d purchased a giant salmon to filet and serve to Brown and his Pro Bowl teammates, and stashed its head in the freezer. Tedeschi believes that Brown opened the door, possibly saw its cold dead eyes staring at him, and mistakenly interpreted it as some kind of weird-ass threat.

“Apparently they misunderstood the fish head,” he said. “I said, ‘Who could have possibly misunderstood a fish head in the freezer? Tell me, what person with intelligence could have misplaced a fish head for some mob, horse head?!’”

Department of non education offices in DC are probably 60-70 % black female. I remember being outside the big treasury building in DC at 5/pm. Hundreds of black federal employees walked out. Visit DC and notice the mostly blacks in the federal buildings.

Visit your local federal building no matter where in this country black black black.

They’re the guards at the entrance. Capitol and all federal buildings. Lots of Whites for some reason. Maybe the affirmative action federal judges don’t want to slaughtered in their own courthouses because of affirmative action security guards.

Problem is that they run all the big city school districts. Blacks dominate the big city administrators in the school district offices. White women teach. Blacks run the big city systems. That’s why that POS Carter created the department of non education to give illiterate lack women with those useless degrees 100-250K a year jobs screwing up education.

“There was an unfortunate incident on our floor this week. An office was vandalized. This cowardly action is intolerable and unacceptable,” Frank Brogan, assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, wrote in an internal email obtained by NBC News.

Notice the writing – in the passive – as opposed to “an intruder vandalized an office”. Sure it may just be poor writing, the writer is in the Dept of Education after all, but maybe, just maybe, even Frank knows there was no intruder. So “an office was vandalized” and the incident is “unfortunate” – not racist – “unfortunate”.

About 20% of the population (and a lower share of those enrolled in school) live in core city district. Some are run by black pols, some aren’t. Blacks are about 13% of the population and they’re not nearly as concentrated in metropolitan settlements as they once were.

I live within walking distance of one of two federal buildings in Los Angeles. It’s not quite as black as it used to be because of affirmative action for Hispanics and Asians, but it’s very very black.

Check out your local federal building if it’s a reasonable distance. Black black black, especially in DC and the big cities. At one time social security was 60 percent black female nation wide. Affirmative action now require Asians and Hispanics but it’s still no Whites need apply

Generally its a stepping stone to employment at a 3 letter agency since there are a number of “current federal employees only” announcements that go out. Since the hiring pipelines can be lengthy, you can rack up a year or two of federal service and can even be career conditional depending on who’s hiring. If you’re lucky you get assigned to the building of the agency you want to work for and get to talk to/befriend people there.

Regardless you see a lot less YT with high and tights at TSA nowadays because that used to be the only real way to get prior federal service. FPS had a number of retirements and enough churn that dealing with surly fliers isn’t needed.

They collect some useful statistics (some programs of that sort have been in place since the 1920s).

Practically everything in the “Department of Homeland Security” belonged to other departments beforehand. It was the second time the Coast Guard moved– they were originally in Treasury, with Customs, which explains the vertical red stripes on their respective flags. The USCG spent 30+ years in the newfangled Department of Transportation, which sounds like the exile and repatriation program we desperately need.

TSA is the only innovation in DHS that comes to mind, and who needs that?

I think it’s pretty obvious what happened: Extreme cold drove some MAGA-hat wearing white-supremacists into the Dept of Ed building. They shouted “This is MAGA country” and only did vandalism in a single person’s office. they weren’t paid well, and that’s why they forgot the rope or the bleach.

Twenty years ago, I turned down a $85K job with the DC government after touring the workplace. Aside from the aging, beat-down IT guy, the place was full of surly black females. I think this the best career decision I’ve made.

Zimmerman (as in “telegram”) is German for carpenter. (Kind of symbolic/ironic.) Unlike Schmidt (almost always non-Jewish) or Goldman (the other way around) it’s somewhere in between. Think of both the famous folk singer on one hand, and the famous White Hispanic and his Dad on the other. (See also “Miller.”)

NYT didn’t coin “White Hispanic.” I heard it at Fort Dix in 1990, from a 2nd generation Cuban-American trooper from NYC by way of Memphis (had worked for Federal Express) who said, “There’s a lot of us White Hispanics.”

Freeman is in the in between category I mentioned in my reply to Jack D’s post. Examples: A small town kid in my section of a dorm at Iowa State U. in the mid ’70s, and Mr. Freeman (a U. of Chicago alum) of the Freeman-Glickman furniture store in Davenport IA in the early ’80s when I briefly worked at the Rock island Arsenal.

Dieter – please look at 136 of this thread. It did not reproduce as being connected to this response of yours, as it was meant to.

But, to all of you here, something strange, perhaps sinister:

just now I punched “reply” and noticed just in time that the “leave a Reply” box had not automatically used my name and e-mail address, but another, that of someone called “Biff”, with his (quite different) e-mail.

Has any one else experienced this in the last day or two, or indeed, ever?

Fascinating. Was that as overall numbers fell? Retain a whitebone approaching-skeleton crew to keep the office functioning, but move the potential sons of the then-president to more comfortable places?

Let’s not be octopus. The matter is translucent. Literally, Antonio Brown is not, and has prophylatically never been, a gay fish. That’s number one, right off the cholesterol. Antonio Brown is not a gay fish.

Yeah, it happened to me a few weeks back. I made note of it and alerted the other person, since (unlike you) I didn’t realize the glitch until after I’d posted. He didn’t respond specifically but appeared angry, as though I had somehow done it deliberately.

No idea how often this is happening but I feel as though it should be addressed by the management.

If Man does what his abilities allow him to do, then nothing more will be asked of him. God will complete what has not been achieved.

Epigraph on the Seuse-Fountain in the former Dominican Insel-Monastery (now Insel Hotel) in Konstanz, where Seuse was the child star, before he was sent to STRAßBURG and Köln, to study with Meister Eckhart and Johannes Tauler. Afterward, he became first the prior and then was defamed, so that he had to leave the city to spent his last years as a monk in Ulm.

Wir sind, aber wir haben uns nicht. (Ernst Bloch)*****
We are but we don’t have ourselves – thus the moment we live in is never clear to us (= is always dark (Bloch)). To act therefor necessarily means, to be – (at least) one step away from – – -redemption, or release.

After a day in the woods with the camera, I saw Once Upon a Time In Hollywood by Quentin Tarrantino. Clear, a bit dark and straightforward. With a nice hommage to the Coen Brothers’ masterpiece True Grit. Charles Portis’ novel True Grit is not bad either.

**** Hans Magnus Enzensberger expresses by and large the same thought in his remarkable essay Vom Blätterteig der Zeit with a reference to the Bäcker******-Transformation in his essay collection ZICKZACK from 1997.****** Mathematician by the name of Bäcker

My dad knew a guy who changed his name to “Robert Eduardo Leon” and made millions on a government set aside contract, but that’s a saturated market now.

Note that the number of Spanish (eg, Spanish Castilian as opposed to Mesoamerican, Euskara/basque or Catalan) surnames is fairly limited. The percentage of Spaniards and steezers named Lopez, Rodriguez, Gonzalez, and the next four or five is way way higher than the number of Englishmen and English derived Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians and Americans named Smith Jones Davis, Thompson, et al.

“…woman who was recently designated as a “diversity change agent” within the Education Department to provide diversity and inclusion training to department staffers…”

The Education Department is an executive branch agency, so whatever happens there, the buck stops at the head of the executive branch. Can someone remind me who the head of the executive branch is, who’s letting crap happen like “diversity change agents”?

The flip side of this is (or at least once was) that in Spanish speaking countries (the one I knew about was Argentina) there was a list of “legal” first names that you had to choose from. No Shanikra’s and D’shawntavious’s. You could only pick from the names on the official list.

Deeply true, but my worry is that we are precisely not doing everything which our abilities allow us to do.
God does not bless inaction, so He will I fear not complete what has not been achieved.

Maybe the Germans will do everything that they can: I await the results of Sunday’s elections. But I fear a greater darkness (now enveloping Italy) before any eventual dawn.

I thank you for your account of the concert, which has allowed me to discover Bedrich Wiedermann. I have just been listening to an exquisite little work of his called Pastorale dorico. I wonder if he suffered from his German name after 1918? At the moment though I am delighting in Bach with the new Concentus Musicus (along with the Tölzers) at Melk in 2017. While there is still time.

Your mention of Hollywood reminded me that I had determined to see it, but the thought of a few hours in a ghastly modern cinema changed my mind. I’ll wait for the DVD thanks.

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I always appreciate my readers’ help, especially monetary. Here’s how you can help:

First: You can use PayPal (non-tax deductible) by going to the page on my old blog here. PayPal accepts most credit cards. Contributions can be either one-time only, monthly, or annual.

The IRS has issued instructions regarding Bitcoins. I’m having Coinbase immediately turn all Bitcoins I receive into U.S. dollars and deposit them in my bank account. At the end of the year, Coinbase will presumably send me a 1099 form for filing my taxes.

Payments are not tax deductible.

Below are links to two Coinbase pages of mine. This first is if you want to enter a U.S. dollar-denominated amount to pay me.

Fifth: if you have a Wells Fargo bank account, you can transfer money to me (with no fees) via Wells Fargo SurePay. Just tell WF SurePay to send the money to my ancient AOL email address steveslrAT aol.com — replace the AT with the usual @). (Non-tax deductible.) There is no 2.9% fee like with PayPal or Google Wallet, so this is good for large contributions.

Sixth: if you have a Chase bank account (or even other bank accounts), you can transfer money to me (with no fees) via Chase QuickPay (FAQ). Just tell Chase QuickPay to send the money to my ancient AOL email address (steveslrATaol.com — replace the AT with the usual @). If Chase asks for the name on my account, it’s StevenSailer with an n at the end of Steven. (Non-tax deductible.) There is no 2.9% fee like with PayPal or Google Wallet, so this is good for large contributions.

Here’s the Google Wallet FAQ. From it: “You will need to have (or sign up for) Google Wallet to send or receive money. If you have ever purchased anything on Google Play, then you most likely already have a Google Wallet. If you do not yet have a Google Wallet, don’t worry, the process is simple: go to wallet.google.com and follow the steps.” You probably already have a Google ID and password, which Google Wallet uses, so signing up Wallet is pretty painless.

You can put money into your Google Wallet Balance from your bank account and send it with no service fee.

Google Wallet works from both a website and a smartphoneapp (Android and iPhone — the Google Wallet app is currently available only in the U.S., but the Google Wallet website can be used in 160 countries).

Or, once you sign up with Google Wallet, you can simply send money via credit card, bank transfer, or Wallet Balance as an attachment from Google’s free Gmail email service. Here’s how to do it.